Antennaria racemosa
Raceme Pussytoes

Family: Asteraceae [Compositae] (Sunflower family)

Photo taken at the Mad River, partially shaded rocky area near river (20 meters away)

Flowers:

3 to 12 heads in an open racemiform inflorescence; dioecious, corollas on staminate plants are 3 to 4 mm, corollas on pistillate plants 3.5 to 5.5 mm

Fruit:

Leaves:

basal leaves are elliptic, 1.5 to 10 cm long by 1 to 5 cm wide, green on the upper surface and tomentose beneath; cauline leaves 10 to 30 mm

Plant:

perennial; upper stem densely glandular, not tomentose

Habitat:

montane forests

Distribution of species:

southwest Canada to Northern California, east to South Dakota and Wyoming

Distribution of genus:

more or less 40 species: America and northern Europe